Re: yet another romance conlang
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 7, 2000, 21:14 |
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At 12:04 -0800 7.1.2000, Barry Garcia wrote:
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>How about, oh, Latin and Hindi? :). Naw, i dont think the Romans made it
>that far. Perhaps Roman and Berber?
They did make it to South India by ship, tho the "Romans" in that case were
probably Greek-speaking ones from Egypt. Graeco-Tamil, anybody?
(I have reason to suspect our resident Hellenist Dr Brown may be game to
this bait... ;-)
Hmm, just remembered that _roman_ means 'body-hair' in Sanskrit...
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson <mailto: bpj@...> <mailto: melroch@...>
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